I Continue To Pray That Blizzard Makes A Feature Movie From Their Cinematics

I've been asking for this ever since StarCraft. Blizzard's cinematics team are the bset in the business, and Christ it would be good if they just made a feature length movie.

The latest cinematic for World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth dropped recently, and it carries on from where the controversial Sylvanas video left off. The timing is really too good, especially given everyone's reaction to the treatment of a major Alliance landmark.

There are heel turns, and then there’s what World of Warcraft’s Sylvanas Windrunner — current leader of the game’s Horde faction — did in a new short released by Blizzard yesterday. She torched the World Tree, a major Alliance landmark, and slaughtered countless innocent night elves in the process. Now Horde players are revolting.

Counterpoint: Silent Hill is a genuinely great movie, easily in my top 50 of all time, and is a shining beacon to video game films everywhere. Proof that it can be done, even if nobody has figured out how to either before or since :/

Mortal Kombat was good. Pokemon also transitioned well to TV and movies, although it worked better as a TV show. And, even though it was only a loose adaptation, the first Resident Evil movies wasn't that bad either. I've also heard good things about Halo: Forward Unto Dawn.

Everyone likes to shit on the Warcraft movie from 2016 but to be honest, for a movie that was muddled by too many voices - it was and remains a true love testament to the series. And well worth watching.

I will defend the Warcraft Movie until the end of time. I say this and i state it as a god damn fact, there was more fucking magic in the Warcraft Movie than there was in the Entire Harry Potter franchise and that was about a fucking school full of wizards

i have to disagree with your second point. I took a couple of family members who are not gamers and had no idea what warcraft was and they loved it. ( no they were not kids or teenagers). I would also like to add that Other Joe from the Angry Joe Show also new nothing of the lore and gave it an 8 out of 10 along with Del with only Angry Joe himself giving it a 6 out of 10

I wasn't trying to imply that was the only reason. But from my point of view anyway. The major contributor to it not getting good reviews or people disliking it was because they knew nothing of the lore. If your family members loved it that's awesome :). You should get them into WoW

I've said it before and I'll say it again: Why the fuck didn't they take the plot from Lord of the Clans and make THAT into the WC movie?

It would have been perfect for a movie, and you wouldn't need the massive amounts of back-story that you needed to enjoy it. Some dickhead Alliance middle-manager finds a baby Orc during the second invasion (which conveniently lets you fill in the back-story of the invasions), and raises it as a pet. The Horde lose the war and become slaves in Alliance internment camps. The pet orc fights as a gladiator before escaping its captivity, freeing the captive orcs, and fighting for their freedom against their former captors.

Fuck - it would have been so interesting having the humans as the bad guys. Movies like District 9 and Avatar kind of did it, but it was somewhat spoiled by the fact that in each, the protagonist was still a human messiah that had to rise up to save the savages - what if instead, all the humans were scumbags and we as an audience could empathize with the 'savage' orcs?

Instead, they tried to cram in a story that required intricate knowledge of Azeroth lore to really enjoy, which (obviously) fell flat to the wider audience that aren't already WC fanboys like me.

Because that's not what people want from a warcraft movie? People want a movie about the Warcraft universe to be about the Warcraft universe. Not some 5 minute short you dreamed up in your head.

And the movie did not fall flat worldwide. It did gangbusters in the asian audience. It made billions of dollars mainly thanks to china. The movie was great and exactly what i wanted from a warcraft movie.

The equivalent to what you suggest would be someone saying "Why did they bother making a Lord of The Rings movie based on the books? They should have just made an hour long fight between humans and orcs! Why do orcs have to be the bad guys? Why cant we have an LOTR movie where Sauron is the good guy!"

Your suggestion is nonsensical and would have bombed worldwide in the cinemas.

You're absolutely right. There isn't enough plot there to support a real story.

Except, you know, it was very nearly a game that was released. And after the game got cancelled, the plot got turned into a novel. And, as dbob pointed out, it's the origin story for one of the Warcraft universe's most popular characters.

My opening sentence pointed out that it was the plot of Lord of the Clans. I also mentioned I was a full Warcraft fanboy. So maybe next time do a bit of research and think a bit before you open your mouth and make yourself look like an idiot.

I love the Warcraft movie, and I'm a 13 year WoW vet. Realise as with any video game film it's never going to be the video game and you need to temper your expectations from a different medium, as with comics to film. It's just really solid fun. The CGI/mocap on the Orcs is just amazing. And their rendition of Gul'dan is one of my favorites. Daniel Wu just oozed menace. I'm just sad we'll probably never see a follow up.

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